Creating boot floppy
Hi everyone! I am also a newbie with Linux. I installed Mandrake 9.1. All works properly. But when I tried to create boot floppy (to copy kernel image on it) and to boot from the floppy, I got:
Loading..... Uncompressing Linux.... invalid compressed format (err=1) -- System Halted I have a root in /dev/hde7 (that's what is written in lilo.conf and I don't have problems with booting by LILO) I copied kernel by command : dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 I'd tried to boot from floppy and got that error messege After that I tried to show to image on the floppy, where is my root (I saw it in some book on Linux system administration): rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hde7 Still nothing!!! Does somebody exactly know what's problem? Thank you. |
I recommend that you try a different approach. Section 8 of the following tutorial explains a different way to create a lilo boot floppy. This method does not require a kernel image to be installed on the floppy.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html ___________________________________ Be prepared. Create a LifeBoat CD. http://users.rcn.com/srstites/LifeBo...home.page.html Steve Stites |
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